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Ay, tear her tattered ensign down! Long has it waved on high, And many an eye has danced to see That banner in the sky
“Shoot, if you must, this old gray head, But spare your country’s flag,” she said.
O beautiful for spacious skies, For amber waves of grain, For purple mountain majesties Above the fruited plain! America! America! God shed His grace on thee, And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shining sea!
My country, ‘t is of thee, Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims’ pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring.
If I should die, think only this of me: That there’s some corner of a foreign field That is for ever England.
The working men have no country.
There is nothing dearer to a man than his own country and his parents, and however splendid a home he may have in a foreign country, if it be far from father or mother, he does not care about it.
And was Jerusalem builded here Among these dark Satanic Mills?
I will not cease from Mental Fight, Nor shall my Sword sleep in my hand, Till we have built Jerusalem, In England’s green & pleasant Land.
O beautiful for heroes prov’d In liberating strife, Who more than self their country loved, And mercy more than life. America! America! May God thy gold refine Till all success be nobleness, And ev’ry gain divine.
This royal throne of kings, this sceptered isle, This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars, This other Eden, demi-paradise, This fortress built by Nature for herself Against infection and the hand of war, This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a wall Or as a moat defensive to a house, Against the envy of less happier lands; This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England
